VIC DUNLOP - Comedian Star of "Martians Go Home"

Comedian and actor Vic Dunlop died of complications from diabetes in a Glendale, California, hospital on August 13, 2011.  He was 62.  Dunlop was born in New York City on November 6, 1948.  He began his career as a comic in the early 1970s with the comedy inprov group Natural Gas that appeared regularly on “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert”.  He was featured on television and in several films including “The Devil and Max Devlin” (1981), “Meatballs Part II” (1984), “Night Patrol” (1984),  “Martians Go Home” (1989) as the Main Martian, “Wishful Thinking” (1990), and “Breakfast of Aliens” (1993) which he also co-scripted.  Dunlop lost a leg to diabetes in 2000, but continued to perform at comedy clubs around the country until death.